Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages
On 2012-06-15 21:58 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
>>
>>> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do
>>> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also
>>> does not seem to see one. But it still wants to install the package.
>>> Why?
>>
>> Probably because texpower (which is currently installed) depends on it,
>> although texpower itself is being removed as unused:
>>
>>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>> libgegl-0.1-0{u} (D: gimp)
>>> texpower{u} (R: texlive-latex-extra, R: texpower-manual)
>>> texpower-manual{u} (R: texpower)
>>
>> This seems to be a bug in the resolver. Removing texpower before the
>> upgrade should work around it.
>
> This is it! It indeed seems to be a bug: the currently installed
> texpower does not depend on texlive-fonts-extra, but the newer versions
> do. However, texpower will be removed.
>
> Should I report this with aptitude or with apt?
With aptitude, I think: "apt-get dist-upgrade" does not remove unused
packages by default, so the result is actually expected.
Cheers,
Sven
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